Politics

4 takeaways from Trump confidant Roger Stone’s indictment

By Daniel Bush

The 24-page indictment laid out Stone’s role as a middleman between the Trump campaign and WikiLeaks.

Democrats campaigned to raise teacher pay. For now, more are prepared to strike

By Courtney Norris

Democrats are facing pressure to act on the issue, after siding with teachers who staged a rising number of strikes since last year.

WATCH: Democratic unity persuaded Trump to end shutdown, Pelosi and Schumer say

By Associated Press

Democratic congressional leaders say they hope President Donald Trump has learned a lesson that government shutdowns don't work.

Trump declares temporary government funding fix to end shutdown

By Laura Santhanam

The deal would fund the federal government until Feb. 15, the president announced.

WATCH: Trump, Congress leaders reach shutdown deal

By Andrew Taylor, Alan Fram, Catherine Lucey, Associated Press

President Donald Trump is expected to make the announcement from the White House Rose Garden, days before he had been scheduled to offer the Jan. 29 State of the Union address to Congress.

Thousands of furloughed IRS workers haven’t returned to work

By Marcy Gordon, Associated Press

The official start of the tax filing season comes Monday.

President Donald Trump blasts arrest of confidant Roger Stone on Twitter

By Associated Press

Stone is a former Trump campaign adviser. He's the sixth Trump associate charged in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into the Trump campaign and possible coordination with Russian efforts to sway the 2016 election.

FAA reports air travel delays at airports in New York and New Jersey

By Associated Press

FAA spokesman Gregory Martin said Friday that it had augmented staffing, rerouted traffic and increased spacing between planes as needed.

U.S. diplomats leave embassy in Venezuela amid political turmoil

By Scott Smith, Joshua Goodman, Associated Press

A defiant Maduro called home all Venezuelan diplomats from the U.S. and closed its embassy in Washington on Thursday, a day after ordering all U.S. diplomats out of the country by the weekend.